Hm?
Could it be?
Amid the dull thud, feeling the sensation from his foot, the Silver Moon Black Robe who had delivered a midair side kick behind Kakashi's retreating body slightly changed expression beneath his hood. A bitter smile suddenly surfaced.
In that instant, he seemed to have remembered something.
Something crucial.
Going by Kakashi's habits, this was...
A clone meant to lure the enemy! At that moment, he understood.
"Crackle—!"
Just as the thought flashed through his mind, a streak of lightning silently flickered behind him.
"Chirpchirpchirpchirpchirp!"
Then came a shrill, grating sound like the cry of a thousand birds beside his right ear.
In an instant, as that Chidori-like cry rang out, darkness suddenly fell behind him.
A figure holding lightning silently appeared behind him, and the lightning in its hand was already thrusting straight toward the back of his head.
"Snap!"
At that very moment, Kakashi, whose head had been knocked aside and neck jutted out from the force of the side kick, looking as though he was about to be sent flying, transformed into a humanoid bolt of lightning. With a crisp crack, the electricity exploded and enveloped the Silver Moon Black Robe entirely, and a stinging numbness instantly spread through every part of his body.
"Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!"
Then, beneath the black robe, charred fragments resembling scales fell in sheets, pattering onto the ground before shattering into dust and vanishing into the air.
So he had prepared the Rock Hardening Technique! At that moment, the figure wielding lightning that had suddenly appeared behind the Silver Moon Black Robe had a sharp glint burst from the scarlet Three Tomoe in his left eye. As the Raikiri in his right hand shot forward, his left hand had already silently formed a seal.
"Screech!"
"Crackle!"
At that